Athletics: world-Doping Agency raises IAAF complete failure ago – ZEIT ONLINE

The image damage for the Athletics IAAF is widening. The independent committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) raises serious accusations against the World Athletics Association. “The corruption was anchored in the organization”, already the news agency AP quoted before the presentation of the second Wada reports for doping and corruption scandal in the world athletics. Main responsible for the “Organisation and facilitate the conspiracy” was therefore the former IAAF President Lamine Diack. but

Under no circumstances could be blamed only “a small number of rogue” for it. “It can not act as a strange apostates who had acted on their own, ignored or dismissed,” says the 89-page report. In addition, there is evidence, the IAAF knew about the systematic doping in Russia since 2009, and to have allegations that a large number of eye-catching blood concealed and not sanctioned.

The IAAF has fallen into disrepute because of the French Diack Justice was charged a fee because of the cover-up of doping cases. This should be made possible that Russian athletes could be at the start, despite positive doping tests at the 2012 Olympics in London and at the World Championships 2013 in Moscow.

According to the AP information to the Olympic participation by athletes from Russia, whose collected for the athletes pass blood tests would point to doping, have been leveled by a suspicious deal. At a meeting in Moscow in front of the London Games, where, according to Wada report Diacks ​​son Papa massata and former IAAF treasurer Valentin Balachnitschjow participated, was not only the price of the TV rights to the 2013 World Championships in Moscow six million negotiated. Diacks ​​son returned with a doped with $ 25 million sponsorship deal from a leading Russian bank.

The independent Wada Commission chaired by Richard Pound and Richard McLaren and the German detectives Günter Younger had submitted a report of its investigations already on 9 November 2015th It had been demonstrated that there has been in the Russian Athletics systematic doping and sporting fraud. The IAAF suspended then Russia Association.

The newly published new findings would have to give “complete collapse of governance structures and the lack of accountability within the IAAF,” it says in the report that there had been a “serious lack of political appetite “given Russia” to confront the full extent of his well-known and feared doping activities “. Also on corruption have the leadership of the World Association “inadequate” reacts, according to the second report of Wada.

The IAAF had already on Monday in a report to the Wada the accusation of cover-up of doping back and stressed that there was no “system of corruption” in the world governing body and the allegations only “individual, formerly associated with the IAAF persons’ concerns.

The Wada Commission came to their investigation to a different conclusion. There had been no opportunity for the IAAF Council-Mmitglieder not perceive the extent of doping and the non-observance of rules, they say.

Both the current President Sebastian Coe (since August 2015) and the German functionary Helmut Digel and IOC member Sergey Bubka were many years in the era Diack vice president. The Briton Coe insisted again on American television, the IAAF had covered up anything. He himself could not have known anything because of his job as a chief organizer of the London Olympic Games, what went in the IAAF.